Thursday, May 7, 2009

Hear Ye...Hear Ye...Whatever!

Conservative shock jock Michael Savage is banned from traveling to Great Britain per Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. Accompanying Savage on this notable list are American Baptist pastor Fred Waldron Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper, who have picketed the funerals of Aids victims and claimed the deaths of US soldiers are a punishment for US tolerance of homosexuality.

Hamas MP Yunis Al-Astal, Jewish extremist Mike Guzovsky, former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard Stephen Donald Black, neo-Nazi Erich Gliebe, Artur Ryno and Pavel Skachevsky, the former leaders of a violent Russian skinhead gang which committed 20 racially motivated murders, are also banned from coming to Britain. Both are currently in prison.

Making up the rest of the 16 named are preachers Wadgy Abd El Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim, Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal, Safwat Hijazi and Amir Siddique, Muslim activist Abdul Ali Musa (previously Clarence Reams), murderer and Hezbollah terrorist Samir Al Quntar and Kashmiri terror group leader Nasr Javed.

Obviously, Great Britain is serious about who they let traverse their grand island. The list, small as it may be, names the most grievous individuals one could imagine and basically slams the proverbial gate in the faces of the aforementioned murders, hate mongers, terrorists, and thugs. Don’t come here they say, but in a more classic sounding verbal assault, accent intact, gaining instant sway and swagger with those reading the dictate. Hear ye, hear ye…whatever.
Good for Great Britain with one minor, ever so breezed-over exception; how in the ever-loving world did a legitimate, conservative, popular, radio host become the equal of the world’s most degenerate ruffians? Earth to England, earth to Jacqui Smith, sounds to me like you have a minor axe to grind with a conservative ideology as if it is directly correlated with hate. What a dim-witted approach to global politics. What a wonderful example of a personal vendetta for the world to see. Cue “God Save the Queen.”

Last time I checked, Michael Savage’s opinions and political ideology were not mired in hate. He simply espouses a right-wing conservative message while speaking out against illegal immigration and Islamic fascism while championing the English only movement, environmentalism, and animal rights. He is pro life, guns, capital punishment, traditional marriage, and small government; most all the core beliefs housed by the Republican Party. He, like every one of us, is a hodge-podge of beliefs molded into a political ideology of individualism. Yet, in Great Britain, if you espouse strong conservative views, then you must be considered a rebel rouser, paired with the likes of the common criminal, and banned from a country known for a stodgy, wig wearing political approach to the world. Are you kidding me? Cue “God Save the Queen.”

I wonder if Howard Stern will be banned next. After all, he is the ultimate shock jock. I guess in the eyes of England, his antics are right regal. Just a thought!

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